In response to developments in live video production, XL Video has updated its range of Catalyst media servers, designed around the new Mac Pro range with the new Apple 3.5GHx 6 and Intel Xeon E5.

XL Video Media Server 2014The updated range of media servers XL Video Boost your management and control capacity for new video productions, for which they incorporate in their core the new Apple 3.5GHx 6 and Intel Xeon E5 for Mac Pro.

The first custom-made, custom enclosure racks of XL Video's Catalyst media servers run the version 4,4 of the software and have a disc of 1 TB SSD. These systems offer two outputs with 2,560 resolution×1.600p as standard and can play eighteen layers of Pro Res LT at 1,920×1.080, or thirty layers of AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) in the same resolution.

The new servers, with side LED lighting, an uninterruptible UPS UPS system is also standard, an Adder KMV controller and cooling system, with four HD/SDI inputs.

The company plans to extend these improvements to its AI units, D3 and Pandora Box software and be operational in about six months.


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by • 6 Jun, 2014
• section: display, Signal distribution